Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] he [vb -s] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The encounter could be read as establishing that he has been silly , while clearing him of a certain … imputation . |
| 2 | Nigel will be just as safe in IndyCar racing as he has been in Formula One , if not safer . ’ |
| 3 | you 've got an order form closed , right you 've got a sumter closed , where you assume that the customer 's buying cos he 's been giving you buying signals , you 're hoping |
| 4 | All this , I say , giving my gloss , can be read — and more particularly seen and heard , since Heseltine 's manner and presence carry their own conviction — as the utterance of a man demonstrating that he has been in the wilderness longer than it is in anyone 's interest . |
| 5 | He comes back two weeks later saying that he has been given the sack . |
| 6 | It was certainly a more honest confession than George Bush ever managed , and by saying that he has been forced into this decision by an expanding deficit which has gone ‘ beyond even the worst official government estimates from last year ’ , he is also confronting Americans with some central truths about their economic situation . |
| 7 | He brings a large , but incomplete , map of the village and surrounding area , saying that he 's been approached by one of the railway companies who are interested in building a railway line to Seatown , and that they have asked him to have the map updated . |
| 8 | Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours . |
| 9 | She dramatically resigned after hearing that he has been invited to speak at the Green party conference next month . |
| 10 | I think the key point is Yeltsin , like Gorbachev , unlike the coup leaders is part of a very privileged elite in the Soviet Union and the difference is that to express the erm , you know trying to put them , advance themselves in society at the expense of the rest of Soviet 's society , applicable difference is erm much more inventive and sort of packed on the end to justify er that , that the moves they are making , I mean at , you know like I say that can be seen in the very democratic step that Yeltsin 's been taking since he 's been the Russian president . |
| 11 | The highest priced work is the leaf from the Arenberg Psalter with illuminations on both sides , for which he paid about $520,000 in 1990 , admitting that he has been one factor in the rise in prices in single sheet miniatures at auction : ‘ Prices have climbed enormously because museum directors realise more and more that the history of painting before 1450 , and even into the sixteenth-century is to a very large extent found in illuminated manuscripts ’ . |
| 12 | In essence , B's claim can be characterised as asserting that he has been denied the right to a fair criminal trial . |